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Phelps' eight gold medals makes us rethink greatness

By Jemele Hill
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

What's an athlete? Who's an athlete? What's mental toughness? What are limits? What is greatness? We thought we knew those answers before Michael Phelps. But now that we've witnessed Phelps win eight gold medals, it turns out we didn't know anything. Forget your previous notions. Forget other things you've seen from the other world's best athletes. What Phelps has done is as remarkably different as God giving us the sun one day and the seas the next. But his greatest achievement at the 2 ...

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